Should The Government Bans Unreasonable Search And Seizures?

Privacy and safety of citizens is common in today's society, as well as the government looking over their shoulder at all times. As an example, George Orwell wrote a book called, "1984" which in it gave an outlook of society being taken over by a party. Government surveillance is different from protecting and bringing safety to the citizens, it violates their freedom, privacy, and human rights.

Government surveillance is beneficial in moderation, but can quite easily become excessive. A well-known example of this is the controversy regarding the NSA monitoring U.S. citizens discreetly on American soil. This unwarranted watch crosses the fine line between monitoring criminal suspects for security, and blatant overreach of authority in spying common citizens. The personal infringement of information has been commonly associated with the NSA’s PRISM, but their MUSCULAR program is much more disconcerting. According to Harry Bruinius in “Why Tech Giants Are Now Uniting Against U.S. Surveillance”:

The chronic surveillance of the population is supposed to be for our own safety, to watch out for terrorists who might want to cause us harm. However, people are losing their freedoms. Corporations play too big a part in governments. Wikilinks should not

Privacy is defined by Dictionary.com as “freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, secret surveillance, or unauthorized disclosure of one’s personal data or information”. This is something that most people value extremely highly. From everyday civilians to government officials, everybody wants some level of privacy. Many say surveillance technology denies them the right to privacy that they are given at birth as American citizens. However, there should be a small amount of wiggle room when it comes to this technology, in order to protect the country and its people. In “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets”, Peter Singer gives us an insight into privacy in the government. He discusses the

How has the U.S. surveillance changed in the past 10 years? Surveillance is defined as a “close kept watch over someone or something.” The use of surveillance has always been there since the days of following someone from their home to work and back, but surveillance and technology have been combined together now. Spying and policing agencies no longer have the need to use of following anyone or listening to their conversations through walls, watching them from distance, and even going through a suspect’s garbage to gather information. The capabilities of government spying are very wide such as computer hacking skills, domestic drone surveillance, and data gathering through cell phone companies. American companies such as Skype, Facebook, Google and many mobile carriers companies reportedly have been turning over user information to government. The important question here is whether spying on the citizens of the United States necessarily a bad thing or not? Also, what can individuals do to protect their privacy from being invaded by their own government? The answer to the question is that our right to our privacy does not exist anymore because everyone is under surveillance and the technology is moving up very fast in this subject and it seems that it is no longer about stopping terrorists, but it is only an excuse to build a surveillance empire.

The controversy on government surveillance is very controversial. Should the government have unlimited access to citizen’s personal information, conversations, and text in order to protect the country? Or should the government have more of a laissez-faire-type role in citizen’s private lifestyles? Across the world, there are different approaches on the government’s surveillance on people. Iceland’s policies are the least intrusive in the world, with almost no surveillance and laws protecting the people’s freedom of speech. On the other end of the spectrum is China, which is in the process of creating a constant surveillance system of all its citizens. Somewhere in the middle of this scale is the United States of America. Influences by other

The government needs to have limited amount of control and involvement when it comes to citizens’ personal matters. The National Security Agency (NSA) also needs to use different methods to gain the knowledge that they are looking for without breaking amendments and rights that are given to us as American Citizens such as, free speech, free media, and freedom of religion. “William’s law: On balance, the less government is involved in something, the fewer the problems, the greater the level of satisfaction, and the cheaper the cost” (Williams

First off, the topic of government surveillance has continued to be a controversy in it’s own regard, especially in the United States since the attacks of 9/11. Although citizens have remained uninformed of the true scope of domestic spying, some government employees have questioned just how far the NSA is truly reaching into the private lives of American citizens. For example, prior to Snowden’s leaks, U.S senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall had been stating vague warnings

The issue between government surveillance and individual rights has been around for a while now. Government surveillance is a topic that makes most people feel uncomfortable because the idea of having someone seeing your every move is disturbing. All though many say that it is for our own safety it still has several negative outcomes. For example, our personal privacy would be completely lost, the purchasing of programs and software to see everything would be expensive, and people would not feel safe due to the fact that they would not know who exactly is seeing their personal information and what they could do with it.

The United States is a nation that was established on several major guiding principles, including freedom, independence, and democracy. These guiding principles have become synonymous with American culture and have helped the nation prosper deeply since its dawn in 1776. One of the major core principles of the American culture that has come into question recently is privacy. Government agencies have begun pushing the boundaries of personal privacy through the justification of hoping to ensure national security. By keeping records of phone transactions, and personal messages, the National Security Agency and its supporters, argue that they are simply making an effort to prevent domestic terrorist activity. However, I would argue that the government's

Privacy is defined by Dictionary.com as “freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, secret surveillance, or unauthorized disclosure of one’s personal data or information”. This is something that most people value extremely highly. From everyday civilians to government officials, everybody wants some level of privacy. Many say surveillance technology denies them the right to privacy that they are given at birth as American citizens. However, there should be a small amount of wiggle room when it comes to this technology, in order to protect the country and its people. In “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets”, Peter Singer gives us an insight into privacy in the government. He discusses the importance of websites such as WikiLeaks, which allow us as citizens to be aware of what is going on in our government. Although surveillance technology infringes on the right to privacy, it allows the government to be aware of possible dangers, enables citizens to be fully informed, and gives the power to the people as in a true democracy.

In today’s day and age, privacy and keeping what belongs to you private, is a very sensitive yet important matter. Luckily, in the Bill of Rights there is a Fourth Amendment right to privacy and improper search and seizer. There are also many court cases that prove why that the right to privacy matters and plays a key role in our society. Another new major problem is that of wiretapping. The government will listen in on the phone calls of citizens, go through their internet searches, and read their emails and texts without them knowing it, and it is becoming a problem for most people. In today’s society, the government keeps itself very private to the public, but the privacy of the citizens is not a concern when the government violates the fourth amendment right, wiretaps phones, and ignores past court cases that stress the importance of the people’s right to privacy.

The government has invaded privacy in many different ways throughout the years. With today’s day and age technology has evolved to be both a gift and a curse. When asked the question about if the government should be able to invade people's privacy, a common response is, “If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to be worried about.” In my opinion, this statement is completely correct. The government’s job is to protect the people. People that break the law have a tendency to hide what they did. If the government can not invade a suspicious person’s privacy then it is near impossible to know that they have broken the law.

What if someone said we were being watched? Every move, every idea, every breath being monitored without our knowledge. Whether we realize it or not, the government is watching us; listening to our phone calls, looking at text messages, looking at emails, and in some cases watching us through video, and they’re allowed to. In 2001, soon after the tragic day of 9/11, President George Bush created the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act is an acronym meaning Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. The act according to Should the U.S. Government Spy, the government is allowed to surveillance us in hopes of improving the nation’s safety. This entailing that the government can conduct a search without the consent of the

I believe all citizens by now know the federal government use technology to monitor us and most of the citizens make it easy for them. I am not in agreement with limiting government official’s authority to collect data. As a citizen in America we have no privacy. People put their personal matters on social media websites for the world to see. It is my thought the federal government funded the development of electronic communications systems. Most people obey the law and will not be targeted for observation and it will not impact their lives. The government is justified in carry out surveillance to uncover terrorist plots while making citizens lives more at ease and safer through the process of getting rid of criminals. Government intrusion into the private lives of citizens is a compromise between safety, convenience and privacy. The legal and ethical issues arise from the officials who misuse the data and causes unnecessary physical or overwhelming stress. In this situation if the individual has been treated unfairly and the procedures